<p>On the Michigan website, it says that the histories/social sciences (Human Geo, US, Euro, etc.) are awarded 4 credit hours each for good scores (4-5). I have a 5 on both Human Geo and US, so that gives me 8 credits. How much money does this save me?</p>
<p>none. it actually costs you money. You’ll be paying upper level tuition sooner.</p>
<p>Yeah, it only has potential to save you money if you take fewer semesters than you otherwise would.</p>
<p>Wondering… Could someone hold off transferring their AP credits until after they’re upper level? Given, they’d be a lower priority for registration until then, but could they still do it anyway?</p>
<p>or you call admissions and tell them to remove your AP credits
Registering earlier is huge though.</p>
<p>So, this actually DOES save me money, right? Because I will possibly be taking one less year of school there (enter as a sophmore, assuming 4-5 on Calc, gov, bio, lit/lang, others…).
In that case, together these would save me a good 20K =)</p>
<p>If you plan on entering the workforce after 3 years, then yes. But if you are planning on going to grad. school, then you might need to do 4 years. I know that med. schools HATE 3 year applicants.</p>
<p>“or you call admissions and tell them to remove your AP credits
Registering earlier is huge though.”</p>
<p>Yeah but what if you want them to be applied toward something?</p>
<p>If you would be taking 2 semesters fewer because of the AP credits than you would without the AP credits, then yes, you’ll be saving money. However, in the OP you only mentioned 8 credits. Once you go above 18 credits/semester, the cost/credit starts to increase.</p>
<p>Really? Why? All I’m doing is completing the gen. ed. courses in high school…</p>
<p>If you mean the distribution credits for LSA, they don’t accept AP credit for those.</p>
<p>^Ugh…I don’t know if I should be mad at the liberals or the money hungry college…</p>
<p>Well I don’t think it was a political decision to disallow AP credit to be used for distribution credit, so I guess money hungry college.</p>
<p>Nah, I wasn’t actually referring to politics, just those liberal minded people who are so liberal that they feel everyone is so ignorant that they must be as liberal as them
Not what I actually believe, but those people are out there…
And yes, I agree with you. It is most likely money</p>
<p>well getting AP credit lets you skip out of general ed stuff and into the more interesting things more quickly. Plus calc 1 and econ 101 are intense weed-out courses. No reason to take them if you can get a 5 on the calc AP test.</p>
<p>^In LSA, AP can’t be used for distribution credits. They don’t get to skip out of the general stuff, just Engineering people.</p>
<p>oh well im in engineering so :D</p>
<p>no one knows for sure. for some, u pay upper level tuition sooner, but if u take 18 credits per sem, u can graduate a sem early, so u save a semester worth of tuition, dont know 
but there are some others who pays upper level tuition early, and graduate in 8 semesters, that’s when you lose money, imo.</p>
<p>Wait, so being in the engineering school means AP credit for the macro exam <em>does</em> count?</p>
<p>^Where’d you get that from?</p>
<p>if i come in with 20 credits, will i be paying upper level tuition sooner? in the long run, am i losing money?</p>
<p>^Probably. </p>
<p>Keep in mind as well, if you hit upper level 1 semester early, you’re paying a few hundred more in LSA, and ~1500ish in CoE. The earlier registration bonus every semester (especially the first couple) is probably worth the additional cost.</p>